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In 2010, soon after determining that Yucca Mountain should no longer be developed as the United States' nuclear waste repository, the Obama administration chartered a commission to develop a strategy for managing the country's spent nuclear fuel and military high-level radioactive waste. On January 26, 2012, the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future (BRC) submitted its final report to the US Energy Secretary.

President Barack Obama's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future will have its first meeting this week. The commission, formed after Obama cancelled the Yucca Mountain spent nuclear fuel repository in January, is tasked with rebooting the country's five-decade-plus effort to manage its high-level radioactive waste.